Key-hook.



J. W. MINNICH.

KEY HOOK.

APPLICATION HLED APR. 20. 1915.

Patented July 13, 1915.

WITNESSES m M O U A coLummA rL/moumvu co., WASHINGTON, u. c.

KEY-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented My 13, 1915.

Application filed. April 20, 1915. Serial No. 22,563.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN W. MrNNIon, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and ImprovedKey-Hook, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to key hooks, and has reference more particularly to hooks adapted to be secured to a garment.

The object of the invention is to provide a key hook on which a suitable key ring may be supported and whereby the accidental displacement of said ring from the hook is prevented, as well as the accidental displacement of the hook from the garment.

With the above and other objects in view, the nature of which will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as herein fully described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of the application, similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my key hook; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section therethrough; Fig. 3 is a rear elevation; Fig. 4 is a front elevation; and Fig. 5 is a cross section on line 55, Fig. 4.

Referring to the drawings, an elongated member 7 has its end portions 8 and 9 bent over the central portion 10 on the opposite sides thereof so that the said portions 8 and 9 extend parallelly to the central portion and to each other. The central portion 10 of the member 7 has a part 11 thereof bent diagonally to the main parts A and B of the portion 10, which are offset from one another by said part 11. The length and angularity of the part 11 is such that the offset B is brought into contact with the end of the portion 8 and the part A with the end of the portion 9.

The portion 8 adjacent its end is provided with a tongue 12 which is cut out from the body of the member 7 and which tongue is bent inwardly so that its rounded end comes in contact with the part 11 adjacent its junction with the part A of the central portion 10 (see Fig. 2). The extremity 13 of the portion 8 is bent to clear the part B so as to facilitate the engagement of a ring 14 with the portion 8, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The tongue 12, which normally engages the part 11, will prevent the ring 14 from disengagement with the portion 8, unless the extremity 13 of the portion is forced away from the part B, so that there is enough clearance between the rounded end of the tongue 12 and the part 11 to permit the ring to pass therebetween.

The portion 9 adjacent its end has a tooth 15 which is stamped out of the body of the member 7 and bent inwardly toward the part B. The tooth 15 is preferably in close proximity, and substantially parallel, to the part 11 so that the same serves two purposes. It clamps the material of the garment engaged by the portion 9 and part B to the part 11 and also bites with its sharp apex 16 into the goods of the garment when the hook tends to slide upwardly on the garment.

From the above description it will be seen that the part A and the portion 8 form the ring hook, while the part B and the portion 9 form the garment hook, the two hooks being united by the diagonally disposed part 11, which isan integral part thereof which brings the two hooks into alinement, and with which part are cooperating the tongue 12 of the ring hook and the tooth 15 of the garment hook.

I claim:

1. A device of the class described com prising a ring hook and a garment hook, said hooks having a common part disposed diagonally to said hooks, the ring hook having a tongue adjacent said diagonal part, and said garment hook having a tooth adjacent said diagonal part.

2. A device of the class described comprising an elongated member the end portions of which are bent to the opposite sides thereof to extend parallelly, and each adapted to form a hook, said elongated member between the bent ends thereof having a part off set diagonally whereby the two hooks formed are brought into alinement, a tongue adjacent the extremity of one of the end portions being bent toward said diagonal ofi"-set to cooperate therewith, and a tooth adjacent the extremity of the other end portion bent toward said diagonal off-set to cooperate therewith.

3. In a device of the class described, a ring hook and a garment hook formed of a single elongated member having a diagonal off-set portion bringing said hooks into In testimony whereof I have signed my alinement in side elevation, said ring hook name to this specification in the presence of having a tongue adjacent the end thereof cotWo subscribing Witnesses.

operating With said diagonaloif-set portion, JOHN W. MINNICH. and said garment hook having a tooth adja- Witnesses:

cent its end also cooperating with said diag- EDWIN P. R. EINERT,

onal portion. 4 I SHERMAN H. Hovnm'nn.

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